What Should Be Is Not Yet What Is

Of all creatures, only God's image can cry,
And laughter is also exclusively his—
For he alone senses our world has gone wrong,
And sees that what should be is not yet what is,
Which leads him to weep, and to joke, and to sigh,
And in his best moments, to cry out: how long?

Author info

Andrew is Teaching Pastor at King's Church London, and has theology degrees from Cambridge (MA), London School of Theology (MTh), and King's College London (PhD). He is a columnist for Christianity Today, and has written several books, including the upcoming Echoes of Exodus (Crossway, 2018) and Spirit and Sacrament: An Invitation to Eucharismatic Worship (Zondervan, 2018). Andrew is married to Rachel and they have three children: Zeke, Anna and Samuel.
Views he expresses here are his own, and do not represent those of Newfrontiers or any particular church.